Spotlight on: application rationalisation
Spotlight on: Finance Transformation
Global
2012-2017
IT
Global
2016-2021+
Finance
“Reducing the cost of our legacy application estate is critical to our business plans. It will achieve annual savings in excess of $XXm.” IT Strategy & Performance
Our customer had an expanding application estate that was costing millions of dollars to maintain, and added undue complexity and inflexibility when any change was required. The objective was to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of the application estate, rationalising platforms and insourcing delivery, thus driving consistency and effective collaboration across the organisation. A critical enabler for their IT Vision to become a World Class IT organisation.
Finance Transformation was mobilised in 2014 to achieve a step- change in Finance performance, by embedding consistent global processes, data, systems and service centres, delivering high quality, efficient services to support global business growth and strategy.
From:
To:
Lack of standardised processes
Modern, simplified and standardised processes
From:
To:
Complex system landscape
Value-focused Operating Model with cost of finance to sales in the upper quartile
High Total Cost of Ownership
Cost effective service
Outsourced service provision
Insourced, under full control
Federated operating model
Faster and greater business and financial insight
Multiple, overlapping platforms
Rationalised application estate
Poor quality source data
Fragmented delivery model
Global Delivery Centres
Engaged and capable workforce, creating value
Significant manual intervention
Non-standard processes
Standardised processes
Project One’s leadership focused on three major programmes:
Such a significant undertaking required the shaping and delivery of a complex suite of interconnected projects and initiatives, working right across the business, not just the Finance function.
Application Rationalisation
Application Development Insourcing Through the development of a detailed cost model and business case, Project One proved that the business could save $Xm over the next five years by insourcing application development for Information and Integration Services. We built an operating model for the insourced unit, defined the services to be provided, kick started the recruitment and stood up a team to drive the work at pace.
Application Lifecycle Services (ALS) Implementation Formed as the new in- house, offshore, application development lifecycle and software services capability, Project One worked with the new Head of ALS to get the business case agreed and then led the implementation project to get this new business unit up
Project One adding value:
Each application was reviewed by a broad team of IT and business owners and a clear application- by-application strategy established, aligned to the target business capability framework. A robust repeatable process was adopted for application decommissioning, including an offshore Service Retirement capability. Having decommissioned 200 applications, the team was on track to achieve its target of a 40% reduction in application numbers and reducing the total cost of running their IT estate by over $XXm.
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020+
Global Processes Designed
Programme Mobilised
Global Close Calendar
FX Forecasting
Operations
and running quickly. We developed and
implemented an effective and efficient set of internal processes for ALS, hand-in- hand with the Leadership Team’s establishment of a new organisation.
Commercial Management Reporting
SAP Harmonisation
Planning Hub
Manufacturing Accounting
Transactional Improvements
External Reporting Hub
Inter- Company Processing
Master Data Management
Data Cleansing
“We would not be where we are today without Project One.” Head of Application Lifecycle Services
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